New York, NY; October 30, 2014 – New American Library, a division of Penguin Random House, announced today that it will publish in hardcover the first book in a new contemporary series from #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward on July 28, 2015.

Launching with a novel of the same name, The Bourbon Kings series will introduce readers to the Bradfords, a wealthy, aristocratic family in Kentucky who made their money from bourbon.

The books have already been optioned for television by Endemol Studios, the entertainment and production company behind the international hit TV series Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, Wipeout, Hell On Wheels, The Falland Peaky Blinders, among others.

Set in the heart of bourbon and horse country, The Bourbon Kings marks a departure for Ward who hasn’t written extensively about Kentucky, though she lives in The Bluegrass State and has deep ties to the surrounding community.

Ward said: “The Bourbon Kings are just like my Black Dagger Brotherhood vampires, flawed heroes for strong women who live and love in a vivid, ever-changing world of passion and excitement. Readers can expect the same big emotions, epic storylines, and soul-deep love stories in these books—as well as those signature, OMG, I have to know what happens NEXT! kind of endings.”

With more than 15 million of her novels in print worldwide, Ward is an international bestselling author best known for her phenomenally popular paranormal Black Dagger Brotherhood series about a group of warrior vampires. Dark Lover, the first book in the series, was published in 2005, and reader reaction was immediate. Just eighteen months later, the fourth book in the series, Lover Revealed, hit the New York Times bestseller list. Since then, Ward’s novels have held the #1 spot on the New York Times hardcover, mass market, eBook, and combined print/eBook fiction bestseller lists and have debuted in the Top Five on the USA Today bestseller list. Ward and her books have been featured in USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe and The New York Times.

“The Bourbon Kings has all the hallmarks of Ward’s hugely successful Black Dagger Brotherhood books—fascinating characters, compelling interwoven plotlines, passionate love stories—while also feeling completely fresh. I’m thrilled to be starting a new series with the extremely talented J.R. Ward and am confident that readers will also find this one irresistibly addictive,” said NAL’s Senior Vice President and Publisher Kara Welsh.

The Bourbon Kings series will follow the Bradfords, those who work for them on their estate, Easterly, and several other wealthy Southern families involved in Kentucky’s bourbon industry.

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About the Author

J.R. Ward is a #1 New York Times bestselling author with more than 15 million novels in print published in 25 different countries around the world. Wardis a graduate of Smith College who currentlylives in Kentucky. Before turning to writing full time, she worked as a lawyer in Boston and also spent many years working as Chief of Staff for one of the premier academic medical centers in the nation. Visit her popular website and fan community atwww.jrward.com and facebook.com/JRWardBooks.

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Smut-Shorties: A great on-the-go short to satisfy your craving for smut!

The Midwinter Ball…a time when the lycan packs of the city are required to send an offering to please the Master of the City; a woman. Young, nubile and eager to please the Master in his bed.

Only this year, the struggling Trevais pack are all out of young and nubile, forcing Alpha’s sister, Cyan Trevais to attend as the Midwinter Offering. Which is fine. Totally cool. Plump and older than all the other offerings, she’s got this. No way will the Master be interested in her. She’ll be fine.

Until she slaps and insults another guest, bringing her to the attention of the Master of the City, who is more than a little interested indeed. An all night kind of interested…

Jodie:
Cyan is ordered to attend a Party for the Master of the City by her pack alpha.
This curvy little spitfire has no idea what she is in for. She thinks he is into women that are thin and are full blooded wolves. . Her clan has not had someone be able to shift since her grandfather. When she enters the party, feeling a bit out of place, she meets a man in the corner. She is not what Veyr expected tonight when he cloaked himself as to not show who he really was. This little spitfire has his wolf ready to howl immediately. Then she gives him hell…..lol I love her responses to him before and after she realizes who he is. They are without a doubt my favorite part of the story……lol. The passion is hot!!!!!! Will this night be more than what either bargained for? This is a real treat and a short read but it has it all. Will make you laugh and pump your fist yelling you tell him girl!!!!!!. Great Job Mina! I look forward to reading more of your books and short stories. To say this short story impressed me is an understatement. Was so excited went looking for someone to talk about it with. This story is recommended for those 18 and older.

Bambi:
Master of the City is a wonderful must read short! This is a spicy,hot, sexy read that leaves you hoping she will write more in this theme…

“The Master had made his choice. Her, Shit, She a screwed Literally.”

Veyr The Overlord and Alpha wolf over Lycan packs was offered any female to mate with during the Mid winter gathering. In all the years he had never had one that appealed to him as much as this year “The Trevais Offering”

Cyan Trevais the Alpha of Trevais sister There blood line so diluted that she couldn’t even shift to her wolf. They were a few generations form being human. What could a curvy women in a borrowed dress, with last minute make-up offer The Master to compete with the women form other packs that were more then perfect……

Can the spunky, curvy, and sassy Cyan how them all what a real woman i like?

How does Veyr The Master and Alpha predator react to all this woman has?

“Don’t look so worried, I’m not going to eat you.” He flashed a small grin. In a bad way at least.”

Iris:
It is that time of the year again. Every pack must choose one single female from within their pack to offer to the Master of the City. If chosen this female will spend a night of unbridled passion in the Master’s bed and hopefully if all works out will bear his cub in the near future. There are no messy emotions to complicate things; it is all about the survival of the packs and continuing strong bloodlines.

The moment Cyan finds out she will be her dwindling pack’s offering she is apprehensive. It doesn’t matter that that the Master prefers his women tall and leggy and she is anything but, she would still rather be anywhere but there. Little does she know that it is those very curves she despairs over that will catch the Master’s attention. It doesn’t hurt that she is opinionated and not intimidated by the Master, even when she realizes who he is. All these add up to an irresistible combination to the Master.

This is one of those reads that the number of pages held no bearing on the storyline. Form the moment I began reading I was hooked. Even at only 18 pages, Carter gives us a plot, a storyline and characters we can get invested in. Not to mention enough fantastic lines that I don’t lack for favorite quotes to share.

“The air of challenge bristling from her had roused his wolf, the light of intelligence in her eyes had roused the man.”

“Very kissed like a starving man, and she were a banquet laid out in front of him.”

It seems we have a Rockstar consensus. Master of the City by Mina Carter is definitely a Rockstars recommended read

Sheriff Jonathan MacSweeny is in charge of keeping the peace in Prospect Springs. Frontier living isn’t what it used to be. It’s hard to survive in the New Old West and it’s even harder when your area doesn’t exactly embrace supernaturals–and you howl at the moon. That being said, he’s good at his job and has a reputation with the ladies. When he learns his childhood sweetheart is to be married off to the town sleazebag, he goes in guns blazing to see to it she’s his. Problem is, Molly isn’t the same girl he remembers from ten years prior. Now she’s a gun-toting, foul-mouthed, vixen with a badge of her own.

Special Marshal Molly Cogan never planned to set foot back in Prospect Springs. When her friend gets the harebrained idea to steal her identity in an attempt to protect her from the bounty the outlaws have on her head, Molly finds herself standing right smack dab in the middle of chaos–or home in her case. It isn’t long before Jonathan is there, flashing that famous MacSweeny boy smile and tempting her in ways she wasn’t prepared for. This heart-hardened Marshal has her work cut out for her if she plans to face her past fears and her past sweetheart.

Let’s take a trip to a future where Paranormals are not just the stuff of fantasies. They are real, living creatures, people you interact with every day. I was fascinated by the concept then a but lost at how the story seems to have set back women’s rights by decades. That being said, I was a bit confused at first, probably for that same reason I just mentioned. However, I was quickly engrossed in this short read.

I found the primary characters were fantastic and at times very humorous and the secondary characters memorable. Although I am more familiar with other books by Roth than I am this particular series, I must say that halfway through Blaze of Glory I wondered how I could possibly have missed reading this before. I look forward to reading future books in this series.

BDSM club owner Adam Kessler is no one’s hero. He joined the army to get away from the gang-life that had taken his brother, only to come home to heartache. He doesn’t hide his dominant side, and he doesn’t hesitate in his need to protect or enforce his particular brand of retribution on those who’ve earned it. There’s no way in hell he could walk past a man hassling a woman in an empty parking lot and do nothing. Only when the confrontation is over and the voluptuous blonde turns eyes filled with desire to him, does Adam realize he’s in trouble.

Psychologist Olivia Lang grew up with the proverbial silver spoon, and has never regretted spending more time on her career than on romance, until she meets Adam Kessler. He’s rough, tough, and ten years her junior…and she wants him.

Passion burns quick and hot between them and soon they’re caught up in an intensely carnal relationship that niether can deny. But when Olivia’s life is threatened and Adam shows her just how dangerous he can be, will it be too much for the civilized psychologist to handle, or will she truly accept the man and win her hero’s heart?

Read Something White Hot.

Gifted with a salacious imagination, Sasha White’s decadent brand of Romance with Heat, and Erotica with Heart is all about sassy women and sexy alpha men. With a voice that is called “distinctive and delicious” by The Romance Studio, Sasha White has published over a dozen stories ranging from contemporary romance to paranormal and is recognized as one the top authors of the genre.

You can find Sasha’s stories with publishers such as Kensington Aphrodisia, Berkley Heat, Black Lace Erotica, and Samhain Publishing. This Canadian author loves to hear from her readers and you can contact her through her website. http://www.sashawhite.net

Bambi’s Rockstar Review:

Primal

Sasha White

This was a very good, hot, sex book. I love the whole BDSM plot and how it shows people being taken care of. I wish that maybe they told more of the back story of Olivia and some of Adam’s military things but it is a good plot and Smoking sex. I look forward to reading more of this author’s work as this is the first one I have read. She spun a great read and had me wanting more from what she told of the characters filling the book.

“You a lady, with a capital L but I don’t want a lady in my bed.”

Adam Kessler an ex-marine who owns a gym and over watch. He also has a mystery job working with fellow Dom Simone. He was raised in east L.A. he was raised hard. When walking on the board walk he sees a woman that catches more than his eye. But he doubts she would ever give him the time of day. Until on the way back from his run he hears a scream and saves said woman.

Dr. Olivia Hampton a therapist out to lunch with her collage best friend at 44 she had all but given up on finding a mister right. Raised wealthy she turned her back on that life. When Adam saves her she doesn’t want things to end.

Can he get over thinking she is slumming or will she embrace the world he opens up in her?

When she finds out everything about him will she accept all the bad and treasure the man she has?

Alyssa Moran is tired of being the old cat lady with no man. She has very specific needs and goes to visit Mrs. Wilder at the Paranormal Dating Agency. Shockingly enough, she is promised a man who likes cats, wants kids, likes curves and will be wild in bed.

Grayson Green needs a mate. Fast. But he refuses to be pushed into anything. That is, until a curvy funny woman shows up in his territory saying she’s there for him. Who is he to argue with someone as delectable as Alyssa decides she wants to give herself to him?

Of course, not all is at it seems and some people want Alyssa gone and Gray dead. If Gray mates, the future of his pride will be sealed and no one can argue his place as leader. Unless it can be stopped before they ever get a chance to make some cubs. He will have to work hard at convincing a human she’s the only one for him or lose his pride and his mate.

Reader Warning: This book contains lots of scorching sex (the kind that will make you sweat and need ice cream), adult language (he’s a very dirty talker and we like it), and violence. If this is not the kind of stuff you like to read, skip this book. However, if you like dirty, raunchy sex with a growly tiger on one funny curvy girl, then this is right up your alley. Enjoy!

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Hi! I’m Milly (AKA April Angel) I love to write sexy stories. They’re usually either paranormal or contemporary with a large dose of heat. My paranormal stories can be anything from wolf-shifters (my favorites) to witches, demons and anything in between. I was born the prettiest part of the Caribbean known as the Dominican Republic. Currently, I live in New York City with my hubby, the bossy kiddo and our little dog “Needy Speedy”. Don’t ask.

When I’m not working some really long hours at the day job, or hanging out in the awful life-sucking invention known as Facebook, messaging my bestie in the UK or shopping with my sis Julie, then I can be found watching scary movies. Buuut when I’m not doing that, I’m usually writing because the voices won’t shut up.

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This week our ROCKSTAR SPOTLIGHT features Milly Taiden!!!

We here at Rockstar are lucky to all be on this Awesome lady’s street team and take great pleasure in sharing our reviews for the wonderful Paranormal Dating Agency Series. In these amazing stories we are introduced to a cast of shifters wolves, bears, and now a tiger. The women so far have all had one thing in common human men just don’t do what they need to have done. So this strong sassy women turn to Mrs. Gerri Wilder to find love. Mrs. Wilder has a way of finding just what this women and shifters need to find a mate. So join us this week in celebrating this awesome set of stories and the unique and wonderful writings of Ms. Milly Taiden. Enjoy the pleasure of getting lost in the world and hot sex that only she can bring to the pages …..

For tiger-shifter, Samira Anderson, leaving home for the first time to attend Harmony University should unnerve her. She’s never submitted to the fear of a challenge and doesn’t plan to start now. Meeting her dorm mates and touring the campus excites her and her cat. Although when she meets Gavin Stone, she’s not only nervous around him but fears she might lose the tight control she has over her tiger.

After a bad break up with his high school sweetheart, Gavin has no intentions of repeating past mistakes. Or so he thought until he sees the beautiful, smart, Samira at the dorm welcome party. Drawn to her like no other, he can’t stay away or shake the feeling Sam isn’t telling him everything.

When he discovers her secrets, a whole new world opens to him, filled with danger, unknown possibilities, and a passion so intense it could last many lifetimes.

Excerpt :

She swallowed and nodded. Words were so hard to form when she stared into his chocolate gaze. He took a step forward, closing the small distance between them, and her heartbeat quickened, her palms dampened.

He lifted his hand and brushed stray hairs from her face. Her skin tingled where his fingertips touched. “You have beautiful eyes.”

Crap. She lowered her eyes, afraid they’d gone cat. Her senses were too alive, too hypersensitive to him. She needed to leave but couldn’t go back to the party, and she damn sure couldn’t go to Dev.

“Did I say something to upset you?”

Returning her attention to Gavin, she offered him a forced smile. “We’ve reached the stream.”

Glancing to the side, he nodded and tugged her toward it. “I can’t swim, but I love the sound of water.”

She relaxed at his confession and took off her shoes. Sitting on the edge of the bank, she slipped her feet into the icy water. “Oh, it’s cold. Put your feet in.”

Shaking his head, he sat next to her while folding his legs into a pretzel. “I’ll pass.”

“So, this is your second year at Harmony?”

“Yep. It’s a good school. Not too big, you know. Then again, I don’t really go anywhere other than my dorm and to classes. I usually go home on the weekends, summer, and holidays.”

She swirled her legs in circles. “Yeah, I can see that. This sound silly, but this is my first time leaving home.”

He closed his warm hand around hers. The wild fire returned with vengeance, making her tiger pace under her skin, too close to the edge. She faced him and stared into his brown eyes. Big mistake. Desire she hadn’t noticed earlier reached out to her empathy, intensifying her own needs. When he cupped her face, liquid heat pooled between her thighs. Oh, God, she wanted to kiss him, possess him.

No, she couldn’t. He was human and could never know about her world. Plus, he’d probably think she was a crazy freak of nature. Gavin wasn’t for her.

Tough as nails, Mitch Paris trained with the best, earning a place as second-in-command to the Alpha of the Brethren. Rissa Leighton survived sickness and an unhappy marriage until the fates brought the two of them together. Never one to give up a fight, it’s now Mitch’s turn to take the lead as alpha of his own pack, but after a ten year absence he returns home with Rissa to the Canadian Northwest Territories to find more than just the landscape has changed. A Blood Challenge has been issued, and not only must he prove his worth but past intrigues raise questions about his future, his new family and a murder that could change the course of their life and love…

Fun Facts about Marianne Morea

I want to get a tattoo but I’m too chicken. Yes, the black belt who breaks boards with her hands is afraid of needles.

I love animals, but bugs are another story. They come into my house, they die.

I love romantic comedies and movies that make you laugh and cry.

I am addicted to the Outlander Series…both books and show.

I can’t hold my liquor. I’m a two drink lightweight.

I love auburn hair. It’s my favorite color (think Julianne Moore)

I hate the fashion industry and their warped perception of women’s bodies.

I have no patience for mean people.

I celebrate every birthday because the alternative is six feet under.

I sometimes watch reality TV. It’s like road kill, I’m both compelled and horrified at the same time, yet can’t look away.

Born and raised in New York, Marianne Morea’s stories embody the grit and complexity of the city. An avid traveler, she uses experiences from around the world in all her books. Dark Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy Suspense and Horror are the hallmarks of her writing style, where readers are thrust into a world where the city never sleeps because the nightmares are real.